Sony counted about 94,900 employees on March 31, 2026, against 112,300 a year earlier. This guide to Sony employee statistics breaks that change down by segment, region and subsidiary using Sony’s own filings, and tracks the PlayStation and Bungie cuts announced since 2024. Sony Employee Statistics 94,900 Sony Group employees on March 31, 2026 17,400 Fewer employees than on March 31, 2025 103,600 Average headcount across fiscal 2025, quarter-end basis 52,600 Employees based outsi...

There was a time I'd look at a board like the Radxa Dragon Q8B (at left, above) and be like, "there's no way I'd spend $209 on an SBC with 8 gigs of RAM". But we're in 2026, and seeing the 8 gig Raspberry Pi 5 going for almost the same amount, I figured I'd give it a shot. On paper , the Q8B beats the Pi 5 in pretty much every way. A lot of that is thanks to this Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 chip, which is the same chip I tested on Microsoft's Windows Dev Kit 2023 . There was a time I'd look...

I shipped a new feature for my blog today: the Newsletters page, which offers an index of all of the newsletters I've sent out, both my free weekly Substack and my monthly sponsors-only updates. I built the feature almost entirely using my voice, chatting away to my laptop while I cooked dinner. Codex voice mode I used the ChatGPT desktop app for this, in the Codex tab, using the voice conversation mode, running against a local development environment. Here's what that looks like: ...

Hello, Welcome to another Friday. Asteroid damage changes Bilka In 2.0, asteroids dealt damage to space platforms based on the relative speed of the asteroid and the collision would cause the asteroid to slow down. After an asteroid dealt a certain amount of damage, it would simply disappear. It was a bit strange to have the asteroids suddenly disappear into thin air with no indication of when it would happen. As you may have already experienced, version 2.1 reworks this...

We are currently living in the age of centaurs (2022-20??). Right now, human engineers paired with AI coding systems are more effective than either by themselves. For future generations of software engineers — human or otherwise — this will be the most significant fact about the current period. As in chess’s own centaur age, people are always ready to claim that the centaur age is over and the age of AI supremacy has begun. But the age of centaurs in chess lasted about twenty years, ...

The Firefox team just launched a website that allows users to rank the Interop 2027 proposals that they care about. And I care about things - for selfish reasons and for work. And that's a challenge. I want to rank things that only benefit me and my blog but I also want to rank things that would make my daily job easier. Or, at least, allow me to delete a lot of code. So I settled with a balance of five for each. My final ranking: CSS random() function CSS corner-shape property C...

On Git Refs Oct 7, 2026 I have recently improved my mental model of Git. Consider these two git commands: $ git fetch origin master $ git switch -c my-feature origin/master Do you understand why is it origin master in one command, and origin/master in the other? I didn’t, until a few weeks ago! My understanding was that git is a content-addressable database. Git stores commits, a commit is identified by the hash of its content, and the content of a commit is, prim...

In response to my last fragments (probably the bit about us worrying if LLMs have consciousness when we when we should be wondering why they don’t have a conscience) “Metalanguage” replied : we shipped the id and forgot the superego. classic software lifecycle. I don’t know what was on their mind, but their post immediately made me think of the classic 1956 movie Forbidden Planet. Plenty of sci-fi, and other literature, have explored humans creating technology with uninten...

WebSocket is a standard protocol to hook up a client and a server in a persistent manner. It is commonly used for live chat, notifications, multiplayer games, collaborative editing, and streaming dashboards. Many servers are written in JavaScript and use Node.js, Bun or Deno as an engine. A few years ago, I wrote a simple WebSocket benchmark in JavaScript . Two clients exchange messages through a server: client 1 sends a message to the server, the server forwards it to client 2, client 2 answ...

First fire of the year and Sid is loving it. Not sure we appreciated the giant queen wasp that came bumbling out of the chimney though. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email , or leave a comment . First fire of the year and Sid is loving it. Not sure we appreciated the giant queen wasp that came bu...

Clara saw this live webcam feed of Sydney making the rounds earlier this week, and it’s a lot of fun. My colleague suspects the camera is mounted behind his old school in Kiribilli, on the northern shore of the harbour. We have it on the TV during the day when we’re working from home. Our favourite is seeing the cruise ships pull up to the terminal, and the trains crossing the bridge. A sailboat or two is nice as well. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2026-10-09. Clara saw this live we...

I stand before Nature, looking up to a castle bathed in gold light. What are perfect places? I wonder if this is the closest I’ll find: with the air of home and the light of Day, with the breeze in the trees and history to see; with life in the moment and rhythm and movement; with gentleness bathing the Earth, winds propelling leaves into the air, painting the picture of the season. ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ Going on a long walk through the city has become something of a tradition for me over the last f...

$150 million agreement modification supports Defense Exportability Features and is matched by $150 million in Shield AI capital     WASHINGTON (October 8, 2026) — Shield AI today announced that the U.S. Navy has executed a $150 million modification to its existing Other Transaction (OT) agreement with the company to advance X-BAT, an AI-piloted, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) fighter aircraft.     The Navy executed the $150 million modification with funding from the Office of...

Monte Carlo simulations (or methods ) is the technique of applying randomness and the Law of large numbers to the solution of various scientific and engineering problems. One of its first documented uses was by Stanislaw Ulam and John von Neumann for nuclear weapon simulations after WWII [1] . In this post I want to provide examples of some simple uses of Monte Carlo simulations. We'll start with the classical example of calculating the value of \pi by throwing darts. Estimating pi ...

More than a year ago I wrote a few posts here that recommended people not to load custom tools into their context (or MCP servers) but to just use more scripts. Most importantly I wrote that Code Is All You Need and I wrote about that MCP needs code . With Pi 1.0 we now added MCP support via Codemode which in some ways is a long time coming, but then also maybe somewhat surprising to some. So I want to share some updated thoughts on this blog on what this all means. What Are Tools Wh...

Map of golden mussel observations through time. Data sources: CDFW and iNaturalist Since its initial appearance in California in October 2024, the golden mussel, Limnoperna fortunei , has accomplished Big Things. These little mussels, native to the Pearl River Delta in China, have taken off from their initial foothold in Stockton to spread all the way south to San Diego, and have been spreading northward as well in recent months. It has been an extreme couple years for CA invasion scie...

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds : Password-protected comic books Password-protected CBZ / CBR files can be opened ( #95 ). The password dialog has a Show password checkbox. Tips on the home page The home page shows a random tip with clickable links and keyboard shortcuts. Click the tip to see another one. Turn tips off with the ShowTips setting ( #5515 ). Manga mode and outline for all formats Toggle Manga Mode work...

By the middle of the 20th century, it had begun to seem that biology was almost solved. Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection explained how organisms change and adapt. The modern science of genetics showed how it works at the molecular scale. Genes governing the traits of organisms get passed down from parent to offspring, and random mutations create the variations from which… Source By the middle of the 20th century, it had begun to seem that biology was almost solved...

The first time I used a coding agent, I was mesmerized . Before the agent, I was copy/pasting between my IDE and an AI chat interface. It was amazing to see an agent edit files directly and fix its own errors in real time. After a few days, the honeymoon wore off as I encountered frequent bugs. The agent would stop responding entirely until I restarted it. Development workflows felt stiflingly primitive, and the agent would often declare tasks finished when work had barely begun. This was i...

The first post in this series introduced Frml , a little procedural language I created so that I could learn how program verification works. The second explained how Frml checks simple scalar code; this one explains how it checks programs with multiple functions. As a reminder, the scalar prover owns the engine and leaves two hooks for higher levels: def verify_function ( self , fn ): state = State () for p in fn . params : state . vars [ p . name ] =...

In this post, I argue that individual intellectual activity can only be sustained in an intellectual community of other humans. AI dissolves these communities, which in turn makes private intellectual activity rarer. The Case of Software Some years ago, when it became clear that AI would solve software engineering, my thinking was: In my professional life, I’m happy to move one level up to become a manager of AI agents. I’m literate, I’m a good technical writer, I can describe...

I wrote the post below last week. That was a quaint and quiet time. Last night OpenAI released a treasure trove of 722 manuscripts solving 372 major open problems in mathematics including from theoretical computer science: A proof of the unique games conjecture  (formalized in Lean) A full derandomization of randomized log space Matrix multiplication in \(n^{2.25+\epsilon}\) time  (formalized in Lean) And many many more. I had Claude put together a webpage to make it easier to explore ...

What's up on the smolweb? September 2026 roundup 2026-10-05 17:00 Autumn is here, the AI slop tide keeps rising on the big web, and the smolweb responds by growing quietly but noticeably. Here is a roundup of what happened on the small web, the smolnet, and around the Gemini protocol in September 2026. Geminispace approaching 3,600 active capsules The Lupa crawler (Stephane Bortzmeyer's Geminispace survey) currently lists 5,215 known capsules , with 3,567 recently connected (page upda...